Green Tips

Opting Out of Catalog Mailings - Recently Office Depot sent 9 of the same catalog to our shop - all addressed to different people who had worked for us over the years. This is an incredible waste of resources: trees, paper and energy, both in making the catalog and getting it to us.

Buying Local - By buying from your local farmer's markets and producers you cut down on energy costs in transporting food, you support the local economy, and have better control over the food you eat.

Join Slow Food USA - We are proud members of Slow Food USA and want to encourage everyone out there to get on board. Honestly, how could we not get on board with an organization who has as a header on their website: Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food.

Stop Using Plastic Water Bottles - The manufacturing of plastic bottles is painful to the environment - fumes and waste from making all that plastic - as well as a petroleum hog. Estimates for the oil consumed to make the plastic water bottles, just for America alone, is between 15-17 million barrels a year.

Squeeze The Petroleum Out Of Your Food - Growing and distributing food the conventional way consumes vast amounts of petroleum in the production of fertilizers, the packaging, cool storage, and transport.

Green Gift Baskets - Reusable, recyclable, deliciously edible. That has been our mantra at Fancifull for years now, especially the edible part. But we are more focused now on how we can have a bigger impact on the planet by having a smaller one as far as where we get our products, how they are manufactured and what we do with them once we have consumed them.